Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 54

Li Xiaoying smiled sweetly, and said: "I don't need anything, now is the time when Longmen Fort needs money the most, brother Zhao should spend the money on Longmen Fort."

Zhao Wen turned around, with a little doting in his eyes, and said with a smile on his face: "How can this be done? The weather is getting colder and colder, you should add some thick clothes. Besides, it's so long Over time, you have helped me a lot. It is also right to buy you something. "

Li Xiaoying's body suddenly trembled, she looked at Zhao Wen's eyes, as if she saw her father squatting in front of her when she was a child, during the Chinese New Year, touching her head with his left hand, and said to her dotingly: " Daughter, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, Daddy is going to the city to buy new year's goods, what does Daughter want? Daddy will buy it for you."

That stalwart figure seemed to have never left, Li Xiaoying stared blankly at Zhao Wen, a tear fell from the corner of her eye.

"I want to eat candied haws!"

Just like when she was a child, Li Xiaoying blurted out.

Zhao Wen patted her head and said with a smile, "You are really a greedy little girl. I want to eat candied haws in winter. Okay, since you have asked, I will buy it for you."

Zhao Wen wiped her tears from the corners of his eyes, and said worriedly, "Why are you still crying? What's wrong? Do you feel sorry for Big Brother's money?"

Li Xiaoying hurriedly turned her back, wiped away her tears, and said coquettishly: "Who cares about your money, it's just that Feng squinted his eyes."

Zhao Wen laughed and said, "Haha, yes, it was Feng who squinted his eyes."

"I want to eat candied haws, candied haws dipped in icing sugar." Li Xiaoying turned her back, her shoulders kept shaking.

Zhao Wen walked over slowly, hugged her into his arms, and whispered softly in her ear, "What's wrong? Miss your father?"

Zhao Wen couldn't see Li Xiaoying's current mood. This was her first Spring Festival without her father.Inevitably, I miss my family a little bit.

Zhao Wen looked at the sky and sighed, "Oh, I don't know if my parents are okay."

Li Xiaoying turned around, hugged Zhao Wen, buried her head in Zhao Wen's chest, Lihua said with rain, "Brother Zhao, I don't have a father anymore, woo woo woo!"

Zhao Wen looked at Li Xiaoying who was restless in his arms, stretched out his right hand, stroked her hair, and said softly, "You still have me!"

At this moment, a group of recruits wearing brand-new mandarin duck battle jackets who had just finished training outside the fort came in a neat queue with long guns in their hands.

At present, Zhao Wen is not very relieved of these recruits, so they are not exposed to 56 and a half weapons.

According to Zhao Wen's idea, after another two months of observation, 56 and a half will be issued to the recruits who have excellent training and are loyal to him.And the 56 and a half bullets must be tightly controlled in his own hands.

Standing at the front, Zhou Laoliu saw the two hugging tightly on the top of the wall, and said to Zhao Daniu who was walking beside him with a strange expression: "Brother Zhao, what's going on?"

Zhao Daniu looked in the direction of Zhou Laoliu's finger and saw two people.

"You bastard, you know nothing." Zhao Daniu kicked Zhou Laoliu's ass and cursed with a smile.

"In the future, please don't inquire about the matter of the garrison. This Miss Li is likely to be the madam in the future. In Longmen Fort, please give me peace of mind when you see her. Anyone who dares to disrespect her will be shut down." Confinement!"

When everyone heard the confinement, they hurriedly lowered their heads and closed their mouths, not daring to say another word.

Now in the entire Longmen Fort, what these recruits are most afraid of is confinement.

If it is a military stick, you can carry it by gritting your teeth.But this confinement is not something people can bear.

Even if you are a man of iron, no matter how hard your mouth and bones are.But when you are locked up for three days, when you come out, the whole person is like walking through hell.

In a dark, dark room, there is nothing in it, only a pile of thatch in the corner.

The whole small black room is cold, no matter how loud you shout inside, no one can hear you.

Before the confinement, you will be asked to bring food for the past few days.

During the few days of confinement, I ate, drank and lazed inside.

Hey, that taste.Even gods can't bear it.

Of course, Zhao Wen came up with this bad move of confinement.However, some slight modifications have been made.

Now, except for himself, Zhao Daniu and the others, there are a total of 120 people in Longmen Fort.

Zhao Wen took away 27 people to act as his personal guards.Zhao Daniu served as the commander of his personal guard.

As for why Song Hu was not allowed to be in charge, one reason was that Song Hu's ability was higher than that of Zhao Daniu, and it was indeed a bit inferior to serve as a small guard chief.

The second is because Zhao Daniu is simple-minded and doesn't have too many careful thoughts. In addition, he has spent a long time with Zhao Daniu and knows Zhao Daniu very well, so Zhao Wen can rest assured that he will hand over his personal guard to Zhao Daniu.

As for the remaining 11 soldiers, every [-] people is a small banner, and there is one small banner officer; every three small banners is a general banner, and there is a general banner officer; every three general banners are a hundred households, and there is a Put the total one person.

At present, this handle is always held by Zhao Wen.

The three general banner officers are Song Hu, Liu Wu, and Wang Qi respectively.As for Li Xiaosan, Zhao Wen kept him by his side because of his young age.

Standing on the top of the city, Zhao Wen looked at the soldiers filing in from the gate of the city, and suddenly said with emotion: "It's not easy, it's not easy, after such a long time, this team is finally set up."

Zhao Wen took Li Xiaoying down from the top of the city wall. Li Xiaosan, with two big black stars stuck in his waist and wearing cotton armor, followed behind Zhao Wen brazenly.

Fan Zheng helped Zhao Wen get the armor and weapons for these soldiers. Otherwise, with Zhao Wen, it would have been impossible to get such brand new more than 100 sets of mandarin duck jackets and armor.

Zhao Wen's Longmen Fort can also be regarded as the establishment of the Xuanfu Ming Army. Logically speaking, Zhao Wen can go directly to the Xuanfu's Hyogo to get it.However, Zhao Wen really couldn't trust Xuan Mansion's armor weapons.

When Zhao Wen was in the Xuan Mansion before, looking at the armor on the soldiers of the Xuan Mansion, he almost made Zhao Wen sick to death.

Not to mention the rust on the armor, it was still tattered, and almost every knife and gun in the hands of the soldiers had rust stains on them.Especially the firecrackers in the hands of those soldiers, tsk tsk tsk, almost caught up with the fire sticks.

One leaf knows autumn, just from this, Zhao Wen can see what kind of armor and weapons are in the Xuanfu's arsenal.

Rather than asking for these junk goods for nothing, it is better to spend money to buy them yourself, after all, you can save yourself worry.

Zhao Wen originally planned to build a blast furnace to make steel and make armor by himself.However, the Chinese New Year is coming soon.Coupled with Zhao Wen's lack of manpower and the shortage of money, he put it on hold.

Zhao Wen returned to the newly renovated garrison mansion, and took off his armor under the service of several servants.

These servants are nimble and quick-witted migrant workers who are too old or too young.

These servants were either too old or too young, so they were not considered soldiers.

These few people were all homeless, and the whole family was killed by the Tartars.If Zhao Wen hadn't taken them in, they would have been frozen to death this winter.

At the begging of several of them, Zhao Wen took them down and served as servants in the mansion.

Zhao Wen took off his armor, sat on the main seat in the hall, and picked up the hot tea that Li Xiaoying made for him.

"Hiss, it's comfortable!"

Zhao Wen drank the hot tea with white smoke in one gulp, let out a long breath, and said lazily.

One of the servants was older, a middle-aged man named Zhou Shiqi brought a brazier and put it next to Zhao Wen.

Zhou Shiqi is a distant relative of Zhou Laoliu, who was born in the 17th year of Wanli.It's almost forty this year.The bones of the body are still tough.

Zhao Wen looked at Li Xiaoying who was standing next to him, and said with a smile, "What are you doing standing there? Come on, sit down."

Zhao Wen pulled a chair next to the brazier, pointed to the chair, and said to Li Xiaoying.

Li Xiaoying didn't hesitate, she sat on the chair directly, stretched out her little hand, and put it on top of the brazier.

The coals of Datong are burned in the brazier, which has a high temperature, a lot of heat, and the smell is not pungent.

Seven or eight braziers were placed in the entire hall, making the hall warm.

Zhao Wen slumped on the chair lazily, with his eyes slightly closed and a look of enjoyment on his face.

There were snowflakes in the sky again.At the beginning, the snow was not big, like the tip of a needle.But it didn't take long for the snow to float down like a goose feather.

A gust of cold wind blew into the hall.

Zhao Wen woke up with a jolt.

"Close the door for me, it's freezing to death."

Zhao Wen pointed to the gate and said to Li Xiaosan.

Li Xiaosan walked over and stretched out his hand to close the door.But he saw Zhao Daniu was covered in snow and ran over in a hurry.

"My lord, Zhao Daniu is here."

Li Xiaosan turned around and said to the lazy Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen opened his eyes and said, "But what happened?"

Before Zhao Wen could continue to ask questions, Zhao Daniu ran into the hall. He didn't bother to brush off the snow from his body, so he hurriedly saluted Zhao Wen, "My lord, Mr. Fan Zhengfan of Zhangjiakou Fort is here."

Zhao Wen jumped up from his chair in shock, and said with a surprised face, "Fan Zheng? What is he doing here?"

"Invite him in!"

When Li Xiaoying heard that there was a guest coming, she stood up quickly and said, "Since there is a guest, I will avoid it for a while."

Zhao Wen looked at the reluctant Li Xiaoying, and said, "Haha, avoid the fart. You just sit here."

Hearing this, Li Xiaoxin smiled sweetly and sat down again.

"Haha, dude, I came here uninvited, and please forgive me, sir!"

As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, Fan Zheng's hearty laughter came in.

Zhao Wen rushed up to meet him, and said with a smile on his face, "My little brother didn't know that Brother Fan was coming, so I couldn't meet him far away, so please forgive me."

"Quick, sit down!"

"Little San, make tea for Brother Fan!"

Zhao Wen arranged for Fan Zheng to sit down, and he himself sat down on the main seat, and said to Li Xiaosan who was standing beside him.

Fan Zheng took the tea brought by Li Xiaosan and drank it all in one gulp.

Zhao Wen looked at Fan Zheng, and said with a smile, "Longmen Castle is in a state of waste, and this tea is not very tasty. Brother Fan, please forgive me."

Fan Zheng put down his teacup and said with a smile: "This tea is not based on whether the tea is good or not. It depends on the mood when drinking the tea. If the mood is good when drinking the tea, even the lowest tea foam can be drunk. The taste of the tongue."

Zhao Wen said with a smile: "It seems that Brother Fan is still quite researching on this tea?"

"Don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it, it's just that I drank too much and gained a little bit of experience."

"I came here uninvited today because of a big event." Fan Zheng suddenly said seriously.

Zhao Wen looked at Fan Zheng and said in a deep voice, "What's the big deal?"

Fan Zheng cleared his throat and said, "Making money is a big deal!"

(End of this chapter)